Fly or Die is the Motto the Mane 6 & friends live by. Lightning Dust comes along not wanting to join the gang but to take over! things start getting out of control. The solution is simple: a race. winner takes all and loser leaves town.
Things are lovely and simple. No world to save or anything. Just them. The Mane 6 and select few friends have decided to stick together for life. "Family" because they are Family. Their Motto: Fly or Die.
Lightning Dust, in town comes in and tries to stir up trouble by not trying to join the gang but to take over everyone and the town. She tries to force relationships. She has her eyes set on one of the girls of the mane 6.
Lightning is Not getting her way smoothly so she has to do things the rough way and holds one of them captive. The gang gets all pissy and retaliates. They have to make their "family" whole again.
A race is set. A bet was made. And there is no turning back.
(before Twilight was Princess and before a lot of things maybe. and unsure if there will be sex or hints of sex in here yet and of course FlutterDash, RariJack, and accents of the others... Guest Appearances will be in here since you can only tag so many characters.)
“Cah-kah-doo-dull-doo!” The rooster of the Apple Family’s Farm calls out at the break of dawn with its own version of a farmer’s accent. It was the beginning of a beautiful perfect day. The Summer daylight heat pushes out the Winter nighttime chill. The morning birds chirp and sing because Spring time has now arrived. “Cah-kah-doo-dull-doo!” calls out the rooster once more and continues to do so out of anger. An empty brown paper bag was crunched into a ball and thrown at the defenseless bird.
“Ugh. Where am I?” Spike groaned realizing he was rolling on soft freshly cut grass hearing a few crinkling sounds that felt like empty soda pop bottles. The Spring breeze brushes against the tip of his nose which carried a strong apple scent answering his own question. He stands up to stretch and looked around to survey the scene. “What a party!”
The view from the back barn to the house itself was a sight. Trash was thrown all around. The lawn had confetti, people who never made it home stirring themselves to wake up, beer cans, and pie plates lying around sporadically. Different coloured streamers draped over some of the trees. Behind Spike, one of the barn doors creaked open and a bunch of girls were giggling waving a half filled bottle of rum and cups in their hands. He was easily startled from his peaceful meditation that he jumped knocking his stale cup of Jack and Coke over causing the girls to laugh louder.
Spike turns to face the girls. “Hey! Good Morning to you Apple Bloom, Sweetie Belle, and Scootaloo!!! Are you three the only ones up in there? How did I end up out here?”
“You were all about being hot and juicy with Silver Spoon, like, as if no one was watching.” Sweetie Belle gossips to him “Then you told her that you needed to go to the bathroom and walked out here and never came back!”
“Ohhh, Nooo!” Spike said frowning. “Is she pissed off at me?”
“Ah don’t think so. Ah think she mightah passed out when ya left.” Apple Bloom tells him.
Scootaloo pipes in. “Diamond Tiara was being such a B-I-T-C-H all night to Sweetie Belle. Then, she left.”
“Isn’t she always?” Spike asked.
“Ah think it’s cause she like-likes Sweetie Belle!”
Sweetie Belle turns red. “NONSENSE, Apple Bloom! And, I am standing right here! We don’t like each other in that way! EVER! NEVER EVER…ever!”
“Don’t get your panties in a twist Sweets!” Scootaloo teases.
“AH never said YA liked her! Now we hafta wonder bout ya liking her too?”
Spike just rolled his eyes and picks up his now empty cup, shakes it a little bit to get the straggling drops out and held it up to the girls so that they can refill his drink.
“SPRING BREAK MORNING DRINKS!!!” they all cheered waking the rest of the back barn up.
*******
“Cah-kah-doo-dull-doo!” The rooster boasted at its usual time alongside an apple shaped alarm clock. And as per usual, Apple Jack yawns and stretches her arm out to hit the snooze button. Unlike her older brother, Big Mac, she needed that extra 7 minutes of sleep before she started her long work day. It was ALL about that extra 7 minutes.
“Cah-kah-doo-dull-doo!” The rooster calls out again 7 minutes later, again with the apple shaped alarm clock. Again, did Apple Jack hit her snooze button? Yes. Today, Apple Jack was extra comfy. Today, Apple Jack woke up next to an also comfy Rarity who was cuddling up and digging into her muscular body. Apple Jack’s arm was the new pillow as pink is the new black. The rooster has not shut up yet though. It continued to Cah-kah-doo-dull-doo! like crazy mad style.
‘What in tarnation is wrong with that bird?’ Apple Jack thinks to herself. She tries to wiggle her way off the bed but gets clung on to.
“Five more minutes, Darling Love, please?” Rarity whispers in her girlfriend’s ear.
“Awe shucks, alrighty then.” Apple Jack says as she stretches the same free half of her body and yawns some more. “Five minutes more, Sugar Love.”
“Starting when I say, of course.”
“Not taday. Ah wish. But, Granny Smith is a comin back Ta-night.”
Rarity pouts. “You’re absolutely right, Darling Love.” she purrred like her cat Opal would. “Let’s roll out of bed already.”
“But, ya didn’t say when five minutes have a started!” exclaimed a very bewildered Apple Jack who wanted that five minute extra cuddle time, not wanting to see what outside her bedroom looked like.
“Mmmm… right now!” Rarity says and immediately started their quick make out session.
*******
“Cah-kah-doo-dull-doo!” The rooster shouted for everyone to start their days but it was a faint shout to Rainbow Dash. The sound of the rooster just became part of her dream world out of nowhere which got disregarded as she zoomed really fast towards the finish line where her Fluttershy was waiting with open arms. She was almost there when “Cah-kah-doo-dull-doo!” repeated over and over again and Fluttershy vanished.
“FLUTTERSHY!!!” Rainbow Dash sat up screaming. She started to blush at herself for waking up like that, leaned up against the wall below the window and then proceeded to wonder where her future Mrs. Rainbow Dash was. Soon, she noticed pillows rising and falling in a continual pattern. Underneath the nest of pillows that formed around her making a bed, Fluttershy seemed to be hibernating with a smile on her face. “How adorable you are, Fluttershy.” Rainbow Dash said out loud to herself after flinging a few pillows off Fluttershy so she could see her. Dash leans forward and lightly kisses Fluttershy on the lips.
The tiniest of yawns comes out of Fluttershy’s mouth and she opens her eyes wide. Her already smiling face just grew bigger into a grin. She kisses her Rainbow back a good morning.
“Wake up, sleepy head! It’s Spring not Winter!” Dash teases as she looks into Fluttershy’s eyes in a loving way.
Fluttershy frantically starts to pat herself down and swims her arms to pat Rainbow Dash’s lower half down which was underneath all the pillows as well. ‘Whew, we still have our clothes on… our, uhhh, panties and bras, anyway!’ she thinks to herself hearing Dash laughing.
“Yeah, we have our clothes on still, Shy!” Dash beamed answering as though she heard what Fluttershy said silently to her own self. “I made sure of it before sleeping, myself.”
Fluttershy crawled upwards so she could sit up against the wall next to Rainbow. She rests her head on Dash’s shoulder and sighed intertwining their fingers.
Dash sighed too. “What a mess.” she says as she woke up with her eyes adjusting to more than just her pillow fluff that they slept on. Her tummy decided to speak too by grumbling really loud complaining about being hungry. So loud, that a pillow belonging to the couch flung at her.
Fluttershy got a partial giggle out before she said “Oh, my!”
The both of them turned their heads to the direction of where the couch pillow materialized. To the left of them they saw Spitfire stretching out her wings next to a snoring Soarin.
“Turn your tummy off, Dash!” Spitfire yawned rubbing her eyes. “It’s as loud as that damn rooster!”
Dash started to laugh so much she thought she would wake up Soarin.
Spitfire continued to talk over Dash laughing in the corner. “I should have been smart like him…” she points at Soarin “…and wore ear plugs. But, it’s just as well since he and I are starting at the Wonderbolt Academy soon to train.”
Rainbow Dash stopped laughing because she too wanted to be at that Wonderbolt Academy.
“Don’t worry, Freshie… you’ll join us eventually.”
“Shut up, Spitfire! Don’t call me Freshie!” Dash shot out. “And I’ll be attending that academy in less time that it took you guys to get in!”
“Sorry, but, you’ll always be my little Freshie!” Spitfire says to Dash as she recalls her senior year of flight school and little Dash with a glued on to her arm Fluttershy walked into their freshmen year. She looks around the place, also, nudging Soarin with her foot. “Yeah, what a mess this place is.”
Toilet Flush! Water Pipes of Faucet Run! Gargle Sound! Water Off! Door Creak!
The Pegasi chics face the bathroom.
“Good Morning, Ladies!” Twilight Sparkle smiles and waves at those in the living room.
“Morning, Twi.” Spitfire and Rainbow Dash say.
“Good M-morning, Twilight!” Fluttershy stammered hiding her face behind her long flowing baby pink hair and Rainbow’s arm. “We didn’t notice you entering the bathroom! We’re sorry… we would have said good morning sooner if we had known!”
“It’s quite alright. I would have been like a book with no words if I didn’t freshen up first!” Twilight said to make Fluttershy feel better.
“How long have you been awake, Eggy!” Dash asks her genius friend using her playful nickname.
“Just when the first Cah-Kah-Doo sounded in my ears, I got up.” Twilight answered. “I then started to evaluate the after party mess writing a check off list of what needs to be done about it, which I haven’t finished. Where is everybody? I saw Pinkie Pie sleeping in the dining room’s chandelier on my way to the bathroom!”
“Apple Jack and Rarity are still in Apple Jack’s room, Silly Willy Twi-lly!” spoke a bubbly dark pink curly haired girl behind Twilight.
“AURGHFFF!!!” Twilight jumped out of her skin a few feet above the ground.
“Wow, Eggy! It’s like you have wings just like us!” Dash snickered and Spitfire laughed causing Fluttershy to say her name in a scolding manner.
Twilight ignored Dash and asked Pinkie “What are they both doing in there!?”
Pinkie gasped. “Don’t you remember!? They came out of the closet about their relationship when Dashie and Flutters announced their engagement turning last night’s party into an engagement party and we all started drinking more shots and eating the vodka soaked apples like they had nothing in them and, and, and…”
“BREATHE PINKSTER!” Dash yelled at her like she always does.
Instead of continuing, Pinkie started to die of laughter. Sets of footsteps were heard coming down the stairs.
“What here is all so funny ya’ll?” Apple Jack came down originally smiling till she saw her house.
“Ask Pinkie, because I can’t tell you.” Twilight said flatly.
“Well, Pinkie?” Apple Jack waited for Pinkie to answer so she could start laughing herself.
“I just realized Twilight missed you and Rarity telling all of us about your relationship because she went upstairs with a guy who is the librarian in the town over!” Pinkie told her still confused friend of why there is all this laughter.
“No she didn’t! She went upstairs with her Great and Powerful!!!” Dash started laughing causing Fluttershy to say her name again in a scolding matter PLUS a nudge to the rib cage.
“Scan-de-lous!” Rarity sings even more interested than before behind Apple Jack. “Tell me more!”
Twilight turned more red than the apples outside on the trees.
“Who did ya score with last night, Twilight!?” Spitfire too, was interested in knowing. “Who won!?”
“As a matter of fact…” Twilight started to say but paused for dramatic effect “…neither of them.” She received a whole room of ‘awes’. “They both found out about each other last night because one of them said they couldn’t make it here so I invited the other. Trixie showed up after all. Her plan was to try surprising me by telling me she couldn’t make it and bringing me flowers.”
“Oh, how romantic that is!” Rarity clasped both her hands together to her chest. Fluttershy did the same thing in agreeing with her.
“I couldn’t take it anymore and told both of them to leave and go home.” Twilight finished her story short not wanting the attention on focused on her.
GRUMBLE
Everyone turned and faced the only guy in the room. Soarin woke himself up due to his tummy. He took out his ear plugs. “My, my… I died and gone to heaven. I wake up to a room full of beauties!” he says grinning. Before he even got to receive ‘awes’ by the girls, he adds “I’m hungry, where’s breakfast?”
The seven girls in the living room dove for a pillow to throw at Soarin. He shielded himself by using his wings to cover his body. When he felt it was safe, he peeked out from behind his wings and asked “Did I say something wrong?” He re-shielded himself as another set of pillows were thrown at him. Under his wings he said loud enough for all of them to hear “This is NOT how I pictured a pillow fight between a room full of girls would look like!” Pillows flew everywhere. Soarin started laughing devilishly.
Minutes later the laughing and pillows died down. Soon, everyone was hungry.
“Ah’d offer ta cook fer all ya’ll but mah kitchen seems ta be real darn disgustin!” Apple Jack shakes her head sadly. “Apparently, so does the whole resta the house it seems.”
“We got your back A.J.” Rainbow Dash says to her friend. “But, speaking for everyone…” she looks around the whole room before continuing her speech “…not till we’re fueled up with food and energy.”
“And, not till after we stretch our wings completely with a quick fly by!” Spitfire chimed in.
“Why don’t we all head over to my bakery/café that I just started owning? We can eat brunch there!” Pinkie Pie offered.
“Or we can go to Sugar Cube Corner!” Twilight Sparkle suggests.
“I do have to agree with Twilight, dear.” Rarity says in her sing song voice. “It is a little closer. Sorry.”
“It’s okay!” Pinkie started to bounce all happy. “It’s been a couple weeks since I’ve visited Mr. and Mrs. Cake and twins! It’ll be fun!”
“Sugar Cube Corner has a small parking lot. We cannot fit all our cars there.” Twilight says all worried.
“It’s okay. Like I said, us pegasi have to stretch our wings out completely. We’ll fly!” Spitfire replies to Twilight.
“We’ll race!” Rainbow got up getting excited.
“LOSER PAYS THE BILL!” Soarin declared getting himself off the couch eagerly. “ALL of us will race. We’ll fly and you can drive.”
“Ah’ll drive mah Subaru Rally Car instead of mah Dodge Viper car. It will fit the four of us that don’t have wings.” Apple Jack was readying herself for her win.
Fluttershy tugs at Rainbow Dash and kisses her on the cheek and then looks at Apple Jack. “If you two, ummm, don’t really mind at all… if it isn’t such a burden… can I… ummm. May I just fly over to the car to do my wing stretch and ride in the vehicle? Please?” She pleaded looking back and forth between the two.
“Ah don’t mind. Do ya, R.D.?”
“Nope! It’s cool, Babe!” Rainbow Dash kisses Fluttershy on the cheek too.
“Should we tell Spikey Wikey?” Rarity asks.
“Nope, nope, noperoo! He’s already having breakfast in the back barn with the girls.” Pinkie Pie giggles in response to Rarity.
“No cheatin… ya hear!?” Apple Jack says to make sure.
“We’ll even start flying from the ground. Once you step on your gas pedal, we’ll shoot to the sky.” Rainbow Dash assured her.
“How is it fair when you three are flying and its one direction and Apple Jack has to drive on streets turning lefts and turning rights dealing with stop lights?” Twilight asks confused.
Apple Jack grinned. “Don’t ya worry bout nuttin, Twi! Ah am awesome at driftin. And Ah made a dirt path long time ago as a short cut ta make it to our meetins over there yonder in the past. Ah use that path up ta taday as exercise for the Annual Runnin of the Leaves we keep on havin in the fall.”
*******
“YeeeHAW!” Apple Jack says as she pulls up her car with Fluttershy in the back seat already. “Thank ya kindly, Fluttershy, for walkin… irrr, actually, flyin ta get the car with me!”
“Oh, no, Apple Jack! Not a problem! Th-thanks again, for letting me ride with you.” Fluttershy says in her normal hushed voice.
Apple Jack got out of the driver’s seat and ran around the car just to open the front passenger door for Rarity. Everyone gushed at that gesture. Pinkie and Twilight simply squeezed themselves through the driver’s side to get in the back with Fluttershy making them situated all cozy-like in the backseat.
“Get yerselves ready for this ride, it’s gonna git a lil bumpy here ‘n’ there. Brace yerselves!” Apple Jack pre-warned all the passengers in her car.
*******
Rainbow Dash, Spitfire, and Soarin were having a little side conversation themselves as they did their pre-flight stretches.
“I’ll bet you two ladies will lose to me by 3 minutes, no doubt!” says Soarin all cocky.
“In your dreams.” Spitfire smacks his arm.
“You’re always in my dreams.” Soarin winks at her.
Rainbow Dash laughs. “Awe, how sappy.”
“Don’t talk to me about being sappy, dude!”
“It’s you verses me anyway, Freshie!” Spitfire says to Dash. “We’re the only real competition in the sky. If we were using our cars, it’d be you, me, and A.J.!”
“Damn straight!” Dash high fived Spitfire.
“Which you’re not.” Soarin says laughing. “Which isn’t a bad thing or anything… ya know. Mmmm, the things that goes on in my mind when I think about lesbians.” He got smacked on both arms with both girls on each side of him doing so.
*******
VROOOM VROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!!!!!!!!!!! Apple Jack’s car engine revs up.
Inside the back barn the teenagers heard commotion outside. They scrambled out the barn doors to see what was up.
Spike was the first to speak. “Where are you all going!?”
“Just to get breakfast lunch.” Twilight answers him back. “Don’t worry about cleaning up this mess till after we come back! But, I left my check list in the living room if you can just make a double check list and see if I missed anything?”
“You got it, Twi!” Spike says saluting her.
“Good Morning, Spikey Wikey!” Rarity called to him. “Can you be a doll, and give us a go signal to start this race? Please?”
“Not a problem at all! Anything for you, R-rarity!” Spike grins to the older woman that he secretly crushes on. He would be with her and do anything for her if he ever got the chance. Which after the announcement last night, he never will. ‘So, it’s only in my dreams, Lady Rarity!’ he thinks to himself, inwardly sighing. He just stands there.
“WHAT ARE YOU DOING SPIKE!? POSING FOR A PICTURE!?” Rainbow Dash snaps him out of his daze.
Spike shakes his whole body for a quick sec “Oops! Eh-heh. Sorry guys!”
*******
Spike stands roughly 12 yards away from Apple Jack’s car and the three pegasi next to it. He starts to wave his arms frantically yelling “GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!”
Scootaloo, Apple Bloom, and Sweetie Belle were all cheering on the sidelines.
Apple Jack steps on her gas and the back tires spun producing dust clouds in her trail.
The pegasi launched up into the air like fireworks.
Keeping calm and collected, Apple Jack’s first drift moment was after the first set of 4 trees her car went through to the right. Inside her car, with the exception of one “YIIIIIIIIIIIPIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!” from a certain dark pink, curly haired, puffy head friend, came screams of terror. Apple Jack felt a wild grin creep onto her face as she drifted to the left and then back to the right receiving the same reactions as the first drift. She was having fun. She looked up in the sky for her competition. She only saw Spitfire. She wonders where the heck the other two are as she drifted some more only a few more minutes away from their destination.
Soarin soared into the air and went the direction he knew to be correct. Yes. Very correct if he was supposed to go to Pinkie Pies bakery/café!!! ‘Shit!’ he says to himself half way there and turns around.
Rainbow Dash dashed straight up as high as she could go. Her plan was to win showing off with style. She’ll go down, breaking through sound barriers making an array of rainbows and beat everyone in the process in one small, ‘Okay, huge', she says to herself, dive. ‘Here, goes!' Down she goes, somersaulting from her invisible diving board in the sky.
“I’m no idiot!” Spitfire talks to herself and she punched through the air. “I don’t know what these two morons are up to but, it’s straight ahead!” She stayed focus and aiming for her goal. “I’m going to win. There’s no way in Hell I am paying this bill!”
*******
Waiting at the finish line, Sugar Cube Corner had an enchanted inflatable bouncy wall set up on all sides just in case someone accidently crashed. There were known incidents where they wish they had these walls before, such as Rainbow Dash practicing her tricks on her way to visit Pinkie Pie at work.
The Cakes stood outside with a bunch of other onlookers.
“Thank goodness that Spike called us, right dear?” Mr. Cake says to his wife.
“That’s right, honey!” Mrs. Cake was able to say before ducking both of them safely out of the way.
Rainbow Dash had accomplished that Sonic RainBoom she wanted to do and touched the ground as Apple Jack did one last drift into a parking spot slightly blinded by the colourful lights. The two of them walked over to an already waiting Spitfire who had her arms crossed.
“Ah woulda beaten ya’ll if Ah didn’t have passengers.”
“I would have beaten you guys if I didn’t think I was going to slam into A.J.’s still moving car everywhere I wanted to land.”
“And I did beat you because I remembered my flight goggles this morning and was not affected by your colours and I saw where A.J. was swerving not drifting!”
A couple minutes later Soarin landed and got the 20 question treatment of the same question in different variations. Instead of answering what took him so long, he says “I guess I got this tab… can you all lend me a few dollars to do so?”
“NO WAY!!!” chorused his three lady competitors.
*******
After everything settled down everyone situated themselves.
Fluttershy ran over to her Rainbow Dash telling her how she was in Pinkie terms ‘Nervicited’ through the whole trip there.
Rarity was yelling at Apple Jack about how dangerous that ride felt. But, she rewarded Apple jack by starting to make out with her because she felt the thrill in her heart and they survived it.
Pinkie Pie ran to the Cakes and their twins and pulled them into a group hug. “Your Pinkie Senses tell you we were coming!?” Not wanting to let Pinkie’s smile turn upside down letting her know that Spike called them, they said yes, continuing their group hug.
“Come on everyone!” Mr. Cake says to the crowd. “Mrs. Cake has the best brunchy buffet set up today!!!”
“Oh no… we forgot to put the tables together.” Mrs. Cake apologizes.
Twilight came out through the doors. “Don’t worry about that Mrs. Cake. I did it all already! Come on guys!” The group and the already eating guests turned to the doors and went in following Twilight’s lead.
*******
It really was the best feast in the world. Especially, after a really big drinking celebration party!
Soarin settled for 3 different individual personal sized pies (banana custard, French silk, and apple cinnamon), a stack of 5 pancakes, 2 Sunnyside up eggs, Canadian bacon, a slice of wheat toast, orange juice, and two shots of espresso.
Spitfire, Rainbow Dash, and Apple Jack ordered the ‘Breakfast of Champions’. It is a 3 egg omelet with all the meats and veggies of the day tossed in with potato hash browns wrapped around it as a crispy outer shell but soft when you crack it open with cheese oozing out, 2 huge waffles, a muffin and a set of toast of their own choice, coffee, and apple juice.
Pinkie Pie went to the kitchen and made herself an extremely sugar loaded breakfast and picked at the buffet.
The rest of everyone picked little things here and there from the buffet.
Pinkie was on her 4th trip to the buffet line when loud tire drifting noises sounded through the windows.
Everyone turned to look because they all knew their favourite show offs, the only show offs in the town, were already inside eating.
Apple Jack stood up to make sure her car wasn’t crashed into. And the Pegasi speedsters got up after hearing the being that they heard slam the car door was a pegasus.
Sugarcube Corner’s doors were swung open with massive force. In walks a very aristocratic Pegasus chic. The first thing noticeable is that She was wearing a pair of the newest coolest Pegasi branded shoes. They were metallic silver with sets of flapping wings on each shoe. Needless to say, these were featherweights. Not only were her shoes impressive, her outfit was too. It is a light opal colour, skin tight, leather body suit that clung to her athletic build. Her hair is different shades of yellow, a mustard and amber shade, and it was slicked back with a lot of gel. A nifty pair of flight goggles hung around her neck like decor.
Spitfire noticed Soarin’s mouth dropped open. She shakes her head “Hey there buddy… keep your eyes on your prize! I’m standing right next to you!”
*******
The stranger did a lap around the whole establishment with eyes claiming she wasn’t that impressed. It looked like she was scanning for something that fit her standards. She winked at Lyra and Bon Bon and kept walking. When she got to the center table, she stood directly in front of Fluttershy and Rarity.
Extending both her hands out, the chic says “The name’s Lightning Dust.” Being the ladies they were brought up to be, Fluttershy and Rarity placed their hands on Lightning’s. Lightning kissed each hand, taking note that there was a ginormous rock on the left hand of the one with the wings knowing not to even mess with whoever was attached to giving that ring.
*******
On the other end of the table, while the girls were pulling their hands away introducing themselves and the others surrounding them, Soarin felt his chest being smacked hearing Spitfire saying “Your new girlfriend is into girls.” He replies, “Oh, how I don’t mind. One. Bit.”
Spitfire looks over her shoulder at Rainbow Dash and her facial expression changed. “Uhhh, Dash? Are you okay!?”
Blood was boiling inside of her system. Her eyes started to squint at the girl who calls herself Lightning Dust. Dash speaks only loud enough for her side of the table to hear. “She’s so plastic. And, she seems to have her own theme song playing in her ears. Ugh. ONLY her ears.”
“There, there now, R.D.” Apple Jack started to pat her friend on the back. “Ah don’t want that no good bamboozling lil doggie touchin mah Rarity just as much as ya don’t want her touchin yer Fluttershy, but we’ve ta keep our cool and pretend ta be okay as our front, ya hear?”
“You’re right A.J.” Dash responds back raising an eyebrow as she watches her friend nodding and watching their girlfriends continue their banter with said Lightning Dust in silence.
Suddenly, the four of them watch that Lightning Dust being distracted by their Pinkie Pie talking about having a ‘Welcome Party’ as Fluttershy broke a mini sound barrier herself leaping on Rainbow Dash’s lap. Fluttershy shook as she whispered something into her Rainbow’s ear. Rainbow Dash didn’t stop staring at Apple Jack who was staring back at her and Fluttershy. There were mixed emotions flying around everywhere all good and all bad at the same time: Relief. Anger. Jealousy. Protected. Doubtful. Love. Highly Dislike. Etc.
Apple Jack couldn't take it any longer. She saw Rainbow Dash’s chest heave and eyes widen and head shaking no. Her body was tensing a second after Dash’s. “What is Fluttershy a sayin? Fluttershy what here is a happenin?”
“Curious minds want to know.” Spitfire says as Soarin continues to eat, treating the intruder as yesterday’s news.
“Well, Fluttershy says that Lightning Dust was hitting on them hardcore.” Dash starts as Apple Jack tenses up. “But, stopped hitting on my Shy girl because of this ring I put on her.” She received a kiss from Fluttershy. “Rarity said that she was taken too. Lightning Dust points out there’s no ring on her finger and that she’ll swoop Rarity away and give her everything in the world she desires.”
“Oh mah Lordy…” Apple Jack says in a tone as light as Fluttershy’s.
Fluttershy places her hand on Apple Jack’s. “Rarity loves you so much. Don’t worry about it. She even told Lightning Dust to get lost in the nicest way possible. And then she told Lightning Dust to get lost in the most horrible way she could think of. Lightning Dust doesn’t care though. She says Rarity will be hers sooner or later. Pinkie Pie is being friendly because she came back from the buffet line after this whole conversation. So, she doesn’t know. Oh, someone should tell her!” Fluttershy gasps.
“Do ya wanna just keep your cool now, A.J.?!” Dash questions. "Some goon wants your lady love!"
“Freshie has a point, dude.” Spitfire adds. “We can slash her tires if you want us to…”
“Oh, Apple Jack… don’t fight. It’s not good to fight. Not right now or not right here.” Fluttershy rambles and pleads. “I don’t want to see you hurt, even though I know you’d win and have everyone here to back you up…”
“Don’tcha worry there, Fluttershy! Ah’m gonna just keep mah calm like Ah said ta originally. We’ll all talk bout this back at the farm while we clean it up.”
“HEY THERE APPLE JACK!!!” Pinkie Pie says all cheery popping her face next to Apple Jack’s that they were cheek to cheek. Apple Jack almost freaked out. “Wha’tcha doin?” She flashes her grinniest of grins. “You’re knuckles are turning really white and your plastic ware is bending out of shape, not to mention your teeth are clenched!!! If it’s because of that new Lightning Dust person, she’s gone now.”
“As Ah was sayin ta Fluttershy. Don’tcha worry. Gosh Darn it!”
“Okie Dokie Lokie!” Pinkie says and starts to bounce way. She turns and faces all of them. “I don’t think I like that new girl much.”
As Pinkie finishes her statement, Twilight walks by. “I don’t think I like her much either.” She turns to Apple Jack. “Rarity is really upset. I say we let Soarin worry about the bill and head back to the farm.”
“Great idea, Twi. Ah’ll go git Rarity now. Meet ya at the car. Ah’ll drive regular this time goin home.”
“We’ll meet ya back at your place, A.J. Fluttershy and I need to stop at both our houses real fast.” Dash informed her friend and then turned to everyone else. “In fact, if you guys excuse us away right now, we’ll be there at the same time you guys get there.”
Spitfire gave her disbelieving chuckle. “You sure about that, Freshie?”
“I need some take home containers for my Pies.” Soarin stated still eating. Everyone started laughing at him.
*******
“Rare? Ya okay there, mah Sugar Love?”
“Yes, my Darling Love. I just feel simply disgusting.”
“Such a scoundrel, she better watch out, gosh darn it! Ah reckon what Fluttershy said was true?”
“She truly is a ruffian. Oh, Darling Love… Fluttershy is correct. Lightning Dust said I was to be hers!”
“No Ma’am. Ah says no one is gonna git mah girl. That’s a final.”
“Let’s go home.”
“Ya callin mah home, home?”
Apple Jack grins that one grin Rarity will never be able to resist. Rarity wraps her arms around Apple Jack’s neck and kisses her right on the lips.
